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> but way, way better at creative writing than Qwen and even better than Gemma 4 26 and 31b. I suspect this is the only use-case I would consider...and I don't really have a use-ca…

> For contrast, the Newcomen steam engine (widely considered the first commercially useful engine) was used for over 60 years before the next major improvements. Now, 300 years lat…

Nuclear weapons (so far)? Banning CFCs perhaps? If you want to go older and more localised you could look at forestry and fisheries laws. Sometimes we self-regulate and form a stab…

I daresay it's because the assistant training corpus is heavily biased towards one-shot solution answers. Because the correct response to that query is "I have no idea -- you will …

> Local community is probably irreparably damaged. But I was a kid with niche interests and I didn't start to find my people until the Internet entered my life in 1989. Sounds like…

How many companies have 1000 frontend developers? Do they need 1000 frontend developers? Aside from the Giants maybe some consultancies or hire-firms have that many? But they use w…

> Well, nothing is easier then adding constraints. Which is why dieting and quitting smoking are famously easy things to do! ;) There's something to be said for the "scrappyness" o…

and in today's world of constant supply-chain attacks, you do probably _do_ need it! We've adapted: - our CI and git hooks so that our dependency or .lock files are visible when th…

> Tabs vs spaces don't matter they are equivalent. Just to nitpick (because what else is this thread about? :)) They aren't equivalent! Tabs carry more semantic information than sp…

Everything old is new again. This is basically the debate over IRC Bouncers all over again.

if you type "I use Arch btw" you'll be unshadowbanned

Literally implemented PR guards today to prevent the team merging any dependencies that didn’t have explicit versions pinned (and that matched the resolution in the lock file). Peo…

> In theory this should be nirvana. No more vibe coding! Everyone is a power user. Zero dependencies. But there will be much weeping. If I had to sum up the zeitgeist of the '90s t…

> Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using Op…

Reading this thread I'm reassured that despite everything AI may disrupt, humans arguing past each other about philosophy of knowledge and epistemology on internet forums is safe :…

Seems like a pretty clear case of caveat emptor

I feel like I should say "spoiler alert" but: > I often wonder is "what will be the minimally viable LLM" that can work from just enough information that if it googles the rest it …

Fantastic comedic writing (and project, of course). It had me guffawing. To add my own "most relatable" quote to this thread: > As always, please save any important work before run…

Excellent self-owning example: > You mean that dumb app that forced you to move files into a single folder instead of adapting to your workflow was prefect? Users in 2012 were over…

Hi Garrett, I love the project -- even if I agree with a lot of the critique in this thread. Critique that is very high quality, professional feedback that you should take as a ver…

... just to be a (hopefully helpful) pedant: If you were going to do this for the slider approach you can arrange the labels to the `block-start` and `block-end` of the image and s…

The flipping-between is a great hack -- as you said your eyes (really, brain) just do the work for you. I learnt about it in Japan where proof-readers and editors would (or do) qui…

Excellent summary of the implications of LLM agents. Personally I'd like it if we could all skip to the _end_ of Asimov's universe and bubble along together, but it seems like we'r…

You mean by the site founded by RCE-native AI agents?

> And if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the last decade, it’s the bitter lesson: when you have enough data and compute, learned representations usually beat carefully hand-tu…